Summary
If you plan on seeing "Fast Food Nation" this weekend, you'd better skip the dinner component of dinner-and-a-movie. The film may be a fictionalized web of interwoven narratives, but it's spun from the hard-to-stomach and often downright gruesome facts presented in Eric Schlosser's 2001 best-selling book of the same name.
Like Morgan Spurlock's 2004 documentary "Super Size Me," both the written and cinematic versions of "Fast Food" share the thesis that fast food is bad. However, where Mr. Spurlock focused primarily on the aftereffects of fast food (i.e. health dangers), Mr. Schlosser's reporting zeroes in on the industry itself, following the production chain from farm to drive-through.See the full content of this document
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'Fast Food': Warning Label
To bring his reportage to life onscreen, the author worked with Richard Linklater ("Before Sunrise," "Slacker"), who also directs the movie. Their...
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